Putting a Filesystem on Top of an Object Store is a Bad Idea. Here is why.

Putting a Filesystem on Top of an Object Store is a Bad Idea. Here is why.

When purchasing storage, the emphasis is usually on media, but it may be even more important to consider access methods too. You will need to take storage protocols into account when designing and procuring infrastructure, especially when you leave legacy storage behind in order to migrate to cloud-native object storage. However, object storage relies on the S3 API for communications,

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Using InfluxDB with MinIO

Using InfluxDB with MinIO

InfluxDB is built on the same ethos as MinIO. It is a single Go binary, cloud agnostic, lightweight, but is also feature packed with things like replication and encryption, and it provides integrations with various applications.

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How to Set up Kafka and Stream Data to MinIO in Kubernetes

How to Set up Kafka and Stream Data to MinIO in Kubernetes

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform that is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. It was originally developed by LinkedIn and is now maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. Kafka is designed to handle high volume, high throughput, and low latency data streams, making it a popular choice for building scalable and reliable data

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GitLab and MinIO for DevOps at Scale

GitLab and MinIO for DevOps at Scale

GitLab can use MinIO as its object storage backend to store large files such as artifacts, Docker images, and Git LFS files. Given the right underlying hardware, MinIO provides the performance and scale to support any modern workload, including GitLab.

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